Interdisciplinary academic programming
Our Bachelor's and Master's of Interdisciplinary Studies programs along with minors, certificates, and courses, empower you to shape a personalized education. Whether you're blending fields or creating your own path, our programs help you lead with bold, cross-disciplinary thinking. By learning across disciplines, you’ll gain adaptable, big-picture thinking.
Innovation
Through the Master of Product Innovation and Innovation and Human-Centered Design courses, students from all backgrounds collaborate to launch ventures, develop products and bring big ideas to life with collaboration with industry partnerships.
Customizable learning pathways
Your academic journey is built around your interests and passions. Through our reflective Life Design program, you’ll evolve and integrate your experiences, build skills and confidence, and collaborate to solve real-world problems that encourage you to ask bold questions.
Credit for Prior Learning
We value the knowledge gained outside the classroom. Non-traditional students can earn academic credit by developing a portfolio that reflects their lived and professional experiences.
Experiential learning
Build real-world skills through hands-on experiences and opportunities, internships, community engagement and undergraduate research. In addition to programs like Transformative Learning, we’ll help you stay focused on career skills development.
Interdisciplinary Studies
Design a degree as unique as your goals. This program lets you build a customized curriculum.
Create your own graduate-level path by combining coursework across fields. This program supports ambitious students seeking personalized, interdisciplinary study.
Innovation
This cross-disciplinary graduate program brings together creators from design, business, engineering, healthcare, and the arts to solve complex challenges and develop market-ready solutions.
Co-offered by the School of Nursing, this program trains future leaders to design innovative healthcare products and solutions in healthcare. and products.
Collaborate across disciplines to learn product design, development, and launch strategies. This certificate runs alongside your major and gives you hands-on experience in innovation. The Certificate in Product Innovation program runs concurrently with a student’s major and is not a stand-alone program.
Gain the skills, mindset, and real-world experience to launch your own venture. Open to all majors, this program combines entrepreneurial thinking with immersive, team-based projects. The Certificate in Venture Creation program runs concurrently with a student’s major and is not a stand-alone program.
Curious about innovating, design thinking, or real-world problem-solving? These open-access courses welcome all majors and help you turn creative ideas into action.
AI and Virtual Reality
Explore virtual, augmented, and mixed reality across tech, culture, art, and storytelling. This minor connects disciplines to prepare students for immersive, digitally-mediated futures.
Designed for all majors, this minor explores AI’s real-world applications and ethical impact across industries—preparing students to use AI thoughtfully in their chosen field.
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Backed by dedicated advisors and faculty, you’ll be supported at every step as you chart a path that reflects your passions, expands your perspective, and prepares you to thrive in a complex, ever-changing world.
